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La Porte Ind. March 18 1864

My own dear good wife,

        Your kind letter of the 11th reached me this morning.  It was a good letter & I have read it several times.  I thank you for it & the words of affection.  I am very sorry that your health is no better.  I wish you were with me that I could care for you & assist you in caring for yourself.  I feel as if you would use mustard & repeat it day after day as I did two years ago it would in a great measure subdue the inflamation in your lung.  I know it is not pleasant & that it requires a great deal of determination much more than one in your health usually has.  Doct. Higday says the great difficulty is in your disease to get any one to faithfully nor the means

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you must answer me immediately in regards to what I have written you in this letter. You don't know how unhappy I shall be if you don't do it on this matter as I want you I promise you it will take a load from my heart if you comply with my wishes. I shall wait with much anxiety to hear from you. I feel certain your love for me will prompt your true wifely heart to do in this matter just as I wish you & that at once resting with the belief I shall expect to hear from you than the {fl?} it {?} & is preless of being made with much love I bid you a sweet good night. Affectionately N